“The magic spring
that gives eternal Life,
is in your own heart
but you have blocked the flow.”
Fakhruddin 'Iraqi (1213–1289) Persian philosopher
Lama’at (Divine Flashes)
Source: Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010), p. 101
Context: This magical universe is so faithful in waiting for us to get out of our own way. Many people do not realize that the sharpening of wit occurs when one humbles their wit. It is in the humble mindset that beauty and magic flow freely.
“The magic spring
that gives eternal Life,
is in your own heart
but you have blocked the flow.”
Fakhruddin 'Iraqi (1213–1289) Persian philosopher
Lama’at (Divine Flashes)
Herbert Schiller (1919–2000) American media critic
Source: Living In The Number One Country (2000), Chapter Two, Visions Of Global Electronic Mastery, p. 85
Gerald Ford (1913–2006) American politician, 38th President of the United States (in office from 1974 to 1977)
Remarks at Naturalization Ceremonies at Monticello, Virginia https://www.fordlibrarymuseum.gov/library/speeches/760649.htm (5 July 1976) <br class="br">1970s
“… the truth holds the greatest magic, the greatest beauty, and sometimes the greatest danger….”
Esther M. Friesner (1951) American writer
Source: Sphinx's Princess
Martin Gardner (1914–2010) recreational mathematician and philosopher
Mathematics, Magic, and Mystery https://books.google.com/books?id=-kOFBQAAQBAJ&pg=PR11#v=onepage&q=%22Mathematical%20magic%20combines%22%23v%3Dsnippet&f=false (1956), p. ix
“What magic shall solve us the secret
Of beauty that’s born for an hour?”
Madison Cawein (1865–1914) poet from Louisville, Kentucky
Interpreted.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations (1919)
“Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing”
Camille Pissarro (1830–1903) French painter